Category Archives: Ecology
Bobby say “Reforestation can’t offset massive fossil fuels emissions”
On December 13, 2013, Bobbie Edwards published the following article on Mongabay. It’s nothing new but posted up to a forestry discussion site, provoked the discourse that made up my previous posting/chapter. It echoes much of what’s been said previously … Continue reading
Ash Die Back – All our fault?
Several lines here, not necessarily all relevant: 1 – Import, export, trans country and trans continental trade – everywhere we travel we cross transfer not just ourselves but also micro-organisms, seeds, spores and larvae. A worry some time ago it … Continue reading
Can I call it CEL?
Carbon too cheap to sell!! Well I read and digested the preceding discussion and tried to extract its pointers, its drift. There were a number of strands, as Javier de Vicente remarked, and an air of confusion but the essence … Continue reading
Die back, die back, as ecology says you should!
This week there’s still loads of stuff about ash die back in the media. Even with the BBC in its death throws as it lurks from scandal to scandal, they find time to talk of the end of our Ash … Continue reading
Ashes to ashes?
Hey, what’s all this about the death of the Ash? All the media in the UK are full of the story and most are quoting Danish arboricultural experts who tell of their recent loss of 90% of their Fraxinus excelsior. … Continue reading
Is it Gaia or Apollo?
Lovelock and Gaia – a love lost? James Lovelock named his autobiography “Homage to Gaia” and so continued the process whereby the theory has been clouded in controversy, scorn and ridicule. The naming was not even his, but was chosen … Continue reading
Biodiversity? Who needs it?
Give something a name and it is almost at once compromised. This is an interesting exercise to observe as differing understandings are applied to the new entity. In a short time someone’s really good idea can be wholly or partially … Continue reading
Five Trillion Trees 